The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

A good friend of mine once said, "I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child.

If I wish to kiss you, I will. No priest, no father, and no god will stop me.

If there is no love, how can there be passion or reason?

Everyday has its unique blessings.

[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.

Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

I am blessed or cursed, depending on how you look at it, with an incurably restless spirit and the ability to work hard.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

I read in a book that a man called Christ went about doing good. It is very disconcerting to me that I am so easily satisfied with just going about.